BlogDB

Mar 09, 2023 from Volution Notes

Privatizing our digital identities

Trying to make the case for permanent irrevocable digital identities, which unfortunately today, by de-facto, are email addresses.

Mar 04, 2023 from Joybuke

Localism Is Extinct

Localism, at least localism in the material world, is an extinct concept. There no longer is a culture of people bound together by material necessity in industrialized nations. What little there is...

Mar 02, 2023 from Alejandro AR (kinduff)

The Cotorreo

Here's a simple idea for remote teams feeling disconnected. A great way to start the day on a positive note.

Mar 02, 2023 from nutcroft

Responding to: Advice to Aimless, Excited Programmers

This is in response to this blog post: https://prog21.dadgum.com/80.html In 2010, James Hague, a recovering programmer, gave some advice to new programmers. He said, if you are someone who would wr...

Mar 01, 2023 from Alejandro AR (kinduff)

I burnt a cake when I was 12

Discover why rushing may not always be the best approach to achieving the best result.

Mar 01, 2023 from Boris Tane

Creating an innovation engine with observability v1

How can you leverage your observability tooling to innovate faster?

Feb 28, 2023 from nutcroft

On AI taking over jobs: The world is based on gifts, not transactions

What are we going to do now that AI will take all our jobs? I. In 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted1 that, in 2030, society would be so productive that we would barely need to work. Presumably, t...

Feb 26, 2023 from Caffeinspiration

Things that are hard to measure, things that are easy to measure

There are things that are hard to measure, and there are things that are easy to measure. I think about this duality a lot when it comes to software engineering, especially when it comes to the dif...

Feb 26, 2023 from Mr. Money Mustache

How to Build a Kitchen (and Why)

Well, looks like it has happened again.  Since the last time we spoke, I got sucked into building my 17th(?) kitchen, and I have finally emerged from its messy yet addictive grasp as I stand here a...

Feb 22, 2023 from Chim Kan - Startups, Fintech, Digital Transformation and Products

Top 10 Alternative Tech News That You Should Know for the Week (Week 8 February 2023)

I curated 10 news articles on AI, Business, and Sci-fi technology trends. Give some thoughts and suggest new topics or news.“My class required AI. Here’s what I’ve learned so far”The author shares ...

Feb 20, 2023 from Home on Random effect

Scoring news and email in Gnus

Executive summary Gnus, the newsreader for Emacs, can assign arbitrary scores to articles that it downloads. The scores can be used to define a user-generated, understandable AI recommendation engi...

Feb 19, 2023 from Joybuke

Biological Superiority, Software Freedom, and Mastery of Ones Own Domain

I’m sure many are aware of cyborgs, cybernetic organisms, and the general idea behind them. It’s the concept of biological life merging with artifical life. In its most classic conception, it bring...

Feb 17, 2023 from Caffeinspiration

In the desert, no service, and your partner's late to the rendezvous. What now?

Let’s say, purely hypothetically, that you’re in Joshua Tree National Park. Your partner dropped you off in the morning, and you’ve spent the day hiking and scrambling in pretty populated areas of ...

Feb 12, 2023 from nutcroft

One thought at a time

There is a graffiti piece in Finsbury Park that reads “Poor is cool”. “Poor is definitely not cool”, Charlie responded when she saw this. “Rich and privileged people say that because they’ve never ...

Feb 05, 2023 from Volution Notes

Another take on the binary to text encoding

A few words about one of my latest open-source projects, `z-tokens`, that among other thinks, also tries to tackle this problem but providing more added value compared to existing solutions.

Feb 02, 2023 from nutcroft

How to: Run your own nostr relay

This is how to setup a nostr relay, fast! First, get an Ubuntu 22.04 VPS somewhere. Second, add its IP to a domain name. Then: ssh root@yourdomain.com apt update apt upgrade apt install -y curl bui...

Jan 25, 2023 from Lorenzo Setale's Blog

Happy to give back, happy to pay

I miss the days when I bought software on my Mac instead of using a subscription. More and more software and services are moving to subscription-based models. In this blog post, I want to share my ...

Jan 25, 2023 from micheal@ecliptik.com

Tailscale on the DevTerm R-01

Intro Recently I assembled a ClockworkPi DevTerm R-01, a cyberdeck-like terminal with a RISC-V compute module. While the retro-future design of the DevTerm really appealed to me, and I’ve also been...

Jan 24, 2023 from nutcroft

Analysing The White Lotus — Season 1

This contains spoilers about season 1 of The White Lotus. I. The White Lotus Season 1 (2021) is about freedom: Black masseuse is exploring an opportunity to become free of her job enslavement. Trop...

Jan 24, 2023 from Tim Bachmann's Blog

"no such file or directory" after enabling CGO in Docker

Quick fix for the "no such file or directory" error after enabling CGO, when running in a scratch docker image.